Major British retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury's and Boots have issued a warning to finance minister Rachel Reeves that raising taxes in the autumn Budget could contradict her plans to improve UK ...

We're often told it is "unscientific" or "meaningless" to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King's College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy ...

Government borrowing was much lower than expected last month, providing a boost to Chancellor Rachel Reeves as she prepares her upcoming Budget .

​Federal Reserve (Fed) chairman Jerome Powell takes the stage at Jackson Hole on Friday at 15:00 BST, delivering what could be the most closely watched central bank speech of the year. His remarks ...

Tesco, Sainsbury's, John Lewis, Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl, Ikea, Boots, JD Sports, Currys and Kingfisher are among those to have signed a letter to the Chancellor.

Sterling rose 0.2% against the dollar to $1.3483 and was marginally higher on the euro at 86.57 pence to the common currency ...

UK inflation rose to 3.8 per cent in July, up from 3.6 per cent in June, keeping the rate stuck at its highest level since ...

Fed minutes from the July 30 meeting don't in general sound like they are setting us up for a rate cut. Market yields were up across the curve on the back of these minutes. Read more ...

The Bank of England currently expects inflation to hit 4% in September, the all-important month for pensioners. Wage growth ...

Target has named an insider as its next chief executive officer. The announcement on Wednesday comes as the discount retailer tries to reverse a persistent sales malaise ...

Prices in the UK rose by 3.8% in the year to July, driven mainly by a jump in the price of air fares and food. That means ...

Stock markets fluctuated on Wednesday, with many investors sticking to the sidelines while hoping for clues on US interest ...